NMLP P-041657 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

The Tennis Court Oath

John Ashbery · Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Connecticut · 1962

The controlling point is the copyright-page statement: Wesleyan stated "First Edition" or "First Printing" on the copyright page and noted subsequent printings, and ABAA-catalogued 1962 copies are described as "first edition stated." Issued simultaneously in two formats — a clothbound issue in publisher's grey cloth over boards, lettered on the spine, in a pictorial dust jacket, and a softcover issue in pictorial printed wrappers

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-041657 for "The Tennis Court Oath" by John Ashbery (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-041657, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).